Re: Architecture independent package

Thanks your reply.

I know "architecture-independent means this package contains only files
which are readable on any arch."

But apt disallow install.

$ apt-cache depends hime:i386
hime:i386
Depends: libc6:i386
Depends: libcairo2:i386
Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386
Depends: libglib2.0-0:i386
Depends: libgtk2.0-0:i386
Depends: libpango-1.0-0:i386
Depends: libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386
Depends: libx11-6:i386
Depends: libxtst6:i386
Depends: <hime-data:i386>          <-------------- unavailable
Depends: hime-tables:i386
Suggests: hime-anthy:i386
Suggests: hime-chewing:i386
Suggests: hime-qt4-immodule:i386
|Recommends: <im-config:i386>          <-------------- unavailable
Recommends: <im-switch:i386>          <-------------- unavailable
Recommends: hime-gtk3-immodule:i386
Conflicts: hime

The <pkg> is show "unavailable" in aptitude.

And when I use # aptitude install hime:i386

It will display :

"Depends: hime-data:i386 which is a virtual package."

I tried follow this page :
http://serverfault.com/questions/250224/how-do-i-get-apt-get-to-ignore-some-dependencies

But the problem is depend on hime-data:i386 , not depend on hime-data.

So I don't know how to ignore it......

I think it's a apt bug . what do you think ?

And , any ideal for solve ?

Thanks.

2015-04-09 20:34 GMT+08:00 Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk>:

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 07:57:43PM +0800, sppmg wrote:
> Hi all
> I want type Chinese in skype in Debian (testing) amd64, so I need this
> package :
>
> "hime"
> (skype need "hime-qt4-immodule:i386" , I google to get this .)
>
> It's will depend "hime-data:i386". But .... hime-data is architecture
> independent package, there is no ":i386" .
> How can i solve this ?

According to packages.debian.org, hime-qt4-immodule (0.9.10-5) depends
on hime (>= 0.9.10.5), which depends on hime-data.

Note that neither of those dependencies specifies an architecture. This
means that any compatible architecture can provide a solution. hime-data
is marked as "arch:all", which means that it can be installed on all
architectures (it is architecture independant).

Therefore, hime-data (arch:all) will satisfy the requirement for
hime-data to an i386 package as well as an amd64 package and so on.

>
> Thanks
>
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